What Anthropic Doesn't Want the Pentagon to Have
What Anthropic Doesn't Want the Pentagon to Have  
Podcast: The Rip Current
Published On: Thu Feb 26 2026
Description: This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theripcurrent.comThis week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put a deadline on Anthropic — hand over an unguardrailed version of your AI by Friday, or be declared a supply chain risk. The press is covering it as a policy fight. But the real question isn’t whether the Pentagon should be able to strong-arm an AI lab. The real question is what they want to do with the techno…